Least-ish?

It's not that the 2 or 3 minutes spent on the scene was bad, in and of itself. Maybe a little artless and a little cliche, but not bad. The characterization was appreciated (even if it was a little left-field).

One additional thought - my theory last week was that Del Toro isn't a native speaker, so his english-language characterization is pretty fucking dire, and watching this ep, that kinda held true: Gus and FatBoy (sorry, forgot his name) may talk like cliches, but so far their characters are some of the least…

A lot of scenes in this ep had me realizing something - these kinds of cliches ("son goes to make final desperate plea to estranged father," etc.) would totally work if they took up 2-3 mins of a relatively decent 90-minute horror movie. They wouldn't be amazing, and they'd still be cliche, but they'd be written off…

Don't put marbles in your nose Put marbles in your nose…

A thirst… for savings!

I'm fairly certain the misogyny is(/are?) just bits he's developed.

Maybe now they can FUCKING STOP.

Would you prefer "o'er"?

I might be wrong, but I've often thought it's something much simpler: he's not a native speaker. His work in english is clumsy and cliche-riddled in comparison to his spanish-language work.

Eph: "You mean, like, vampires?"

Why not? It's already been made into a pretty great graphic novel (http://www.amazon.com/Wrink…, so storyboarding (taking words/action and depicting how they'd work in a physical space) would be (presumably) fairly easy…

Blow 'em up in the next installment of Project Badass, of course!

Loved those two films. "The Black Hole" was the first "horror" flick I remember seeing.

By the way you guys - can I just say as a side note - I am loving this canned wine thing. I think it's brilliant! I mean, I'm active, I'm gesturing with my hands, and I don't feel restricted. If I was holding a wine glass right now I'd be spilling wine all over the goddamn place…

I looked around this comment section and have only one thought: I'm home.

That's meta, though. And that's their contrivance. The characters know what's happening, they just can't believe what's happening. Until it's (dun dun dun) too late.

Nobody in horror movies has time to watch horror movies. Don't you know that by now? ;)

The therapy session was the worst part - calling attention to the writing's seams by having Eph take over the conversation and enumerate his faults instead of using the completely natural tactic of letting his wife or the therapist - two really great and common exposition droppers in this kind of genre fare - do it…

The third book tried to pull some bullshit characterization to fix Eph, something about how he was secretly a good man and how his intense care for the world weighed him down and broke him and caused him to be a self-centered douche.